The Austrian comic tradition: studies in honour of W. E. Yates.
Published by Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 1998
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very good red cloth, ex-library copy with various stamps, spine call number, but book itself appears very little used. MCKENZIE, JOHN R. P. / SHARPE, LESLEY, ed. . The Austrian comic tradition: studies in honour of W. E. Yates. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 1998, xviii, 279pp., . Series: Austrian studies, 9. - W. E. Yates, 1938-2021: Professor of German at the University of Exeter since 1972. - Texts in English. - CONTENTS: Preface: W. E. Yates ix - Notes on Abbreviations xiii - W. E. Yates: A Bibliography xiv - PART ONE: Louise Adey Huish, An Austrian Comic Tradition? 3 - Ritchie Robertson, Heroes in their Underclothes: Aloys Blumauer's Travesty of Virgil's Aeneid 24 - Ian F. Roe, The Comedies of Johanna von Weissenthurn 41 - Peter Branscombe, Nestryy and Schiller 58 - Dagmar Zumbusch-Beisteiner, Music in Nestroy's Plays 71 - Jürgen Hein, Nestroy's 'Epic' Theatre 86 - Walter Obermaier, Nestroy and Slavery 102 - Friedrich Walla, 'Crying out loud in silence': Social Inequality in Nestroy's Die Gleichheit der Jahre 118 - John R. P. McKenzie, Nestroy's Zwey ewige Juden und Keiner. a Tale of Three Cities 130 - Peter Skrine, Friedrich Halm and the Comic Muse 145 - Gilbert J. Carr, Bloodshed in the Balkans: Robert Scheu, Karl Kraus and a Question of Satire 160 - Martin Swales, The Aristocratic Philanderer: Reflections on Hofmannsthal's Der Schwierige 176 - Robert Vilain, 'Stop all the Clocks': Time and Times in the 'Vienna Operas' of Hofmannsthal and Strauss 185 - Alan Bance, The Significance of the Irrational in Horvath's Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald 202 - PART TWO: REVIEW ARTICLE: John Warren, Viennese Theatre History (on W. E. Yates, Theatre in Vienna: A Critical History, 1776-1995) 221 - PART THREE: REVIEWS: Victoria Martin, Mauriz Schuster and Hans Schikola, Das alte Wienerisch. Ein kulturgeschichtliches Wbrterbuch 230 - Peter Branscombe, Konrad Küster, Mozart. A Musical Biography; Vjera Katalinic (ed.), Off-Mozart. Musical Culture and the 'Kleinmeister' of Central Europe 1750-1820 - Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly, Hartmut Laufhutte and Karl Moseneder (eds), Adalbert Stifter: Dichter und Maler, Denkmalpfleger und Schulmann 232 - Anita Bunyan, Gabriele von Glasenapp, Aus der Judengasse: Zur Entstehung und Auspragung deutschsprachiger Ghettoliteratur im 19. Jahrhundert 234 - Anne Fuchs, Mark H. Gelber, Hans Otto Horch and Sigurd Paul ScheichI (eds), Von Franzos zu Canetti: Judische Autoren aus Osterreich 235 - Andrew Barker, Lorna Martens, Shadow Lines. Austrian Literature from Freud to Kafka; Katherine Arens, Austria and Other Margins: Reading Culture 236 - W. E. Yates, Anton Mayer, Theater in Wien urn 1900. Der Dichterkreis Jung Men 239 - Jill Lewis, Karin J. Jusek, Aufder Suche nach der Verlorenen. Die Prostitutionsdebatten im Wien der Jahrhundertwende 240 - David Rechter, Beatrix Hoffmann-Holter, 'Abreisendmachung': Jiidische Fluchtlinge in Wien 1914 bis 1923 241 - R. S. Furness, Anne C. Shreffler, Webern and the Lyric Impulse: Songs and Fragments on Poems ofGeorg Trakl 243 - Anthony Phelan, Roger Paulin and Peter Hutchinson, Rilke's 'Duino Elegies': Cambridge Readings 244 - Mark Anderson: Elizabeth Boa, Kafka: Gender, Class, and Race in the Letters and Fictions 245 - Martha Worsening, Alexander Stillmark (ed.), Joseph Roth: Der Sieg uber die Zeit. Londoner Symposium 248 - Ian Huish, 'It's Up to Us!' Collected Works of Jura Soyfer, selected and translated by Horst Jarka . 249 - Fritz Breithaupt: Christopher J. Thornhill, Walter Benjamin and Karl Kraus: Problems of a 'Wahlverwandtschaft' 252 - Brian Keith-Smith: Hilde Haider-Pregler and Beate Reiterer (eds), Verspielte Zeit: Osterreichisches Theater der 30er Jahre 255 - Christopher Hailey, Susanne Rode-Breymann, Die Wiener Staatsoper in den Zmischenkriegsjahren: Ihr Beitrag zum zeitgenossischen Musiktheater 258 - J. M. Ritchie: Jutta Raab Hansen, NS-verfolgte Musiker in England. Spuren deutscher und österreichischer Fluchtlinge in der britischen Musikkultur 259 - Andrea Hamme.…
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- The Austrian comic tradition: studies in honour of W. E. Yates.
- Author
- McKenzie, John R. P. / Sharpe, Lesley, ed.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 1998
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- Hardcover
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